Headliners; Under Investigation?

Published: December 27, 1987

Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman has been accused of misjudging a judge. Earlier this month, Ms. Holtzman asserted that Judge Irving W. Levine had humiliated a woman by ordering her to re-enact a rape.

After an investigation of Ms. Holtzman's charges, the state's Chief Administrative Judge, Albert M. Rosenblatt, said last week that Judge Levine had done no wrong. A court report on the matter said the defense attorney, not Judge Levine, requested the rape re-enactment. Ms. Holtzman said that her statements in the case were based on an affidavit, from one of her aides, and that she had ''acted in accordance with my duty and my conscience.''

Judge Rosenblatt recommended that a judicial grievance committee investigate her role in the matter.